Earth’s moon getting a Mini-Me starting Sunday
WASHINGTON — Earth’s moon will soon have some company — a “mini moon.” The mini moon is actually an asteroid about the size of a school bus at 33 feet. When it whizzes by Earth on Sunday, it will be temporarily trapped by our planet’s gravity and orbit the globe — but only for about two months.
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The Moon’s Surprising Origin: New Evidence Suggests Earth Captured the Moon from SpaceFor nearly four decades, the dominant theory explaining the formation of Earth's moon has been that it originated from a ...
It will be years before the European Space Agency can send one of its astronauts to the moon, but the agency says it’s time ...
Earth will capture a miniature, “second moon” this week, according to NASA scientists. The new moon is actually a tiny ...
Technically a “temporarily captured object,” 2024 PT5 is a near-Earth asteroid and Earth’s newest mini-moon. This 11-meter ...
European astronauts trained for future moon missions on Wednesday in a lunar simulator in Germany. The European Space Agency ...
Earth will get a "new moon" this weekend when, on Sunday (Sept. 29), it captures the asteroid 2024 PT5, claiming it as a very ...
AN ASTEROID is expected to be hooked into Earth’s orbit tomorrow night, acting a second ‘tiny moon’ for the next two months.
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